John Brown, Harpers Ferry Murderer

I feel that John Brown was a murderer not a martyr. I say this because John Brown was an American that thought that slavery should be banned. He was an extremist. This meant that he would kill for what he believed. As I said he believed that slavery should be banned and that it was horrible. He believed in this so much that again he would kill people. Like one time he and his 5 sons raided the Harpers Ferry arsenal in the south. He wanted to raid it for the rifles in the arsenal so he could arm slaves and create an army to rise up against the south. During this raid he killed the guards there and some town folk he also fought against him. The only reason he didn’t complete his objective was there were no slaves to come and help him grab rifles, and soon enough the marines showed up and killed his 5 sons and captured him. These actions were not the only actions he did that showed him being a murder.When Kansas territory was choosing if it was a free or slave state using popular sovereignty, he killed people who wanted Kansas territory to be a slave state. Even though slavery was a bad thing and John Brown wanted to get rid of it, I still say he was a murderer because he could have taken less murderous actions.